MotoGP: Marc Marquez also wins the Sprint in Austria. Bagnaia retires.

Marc Marquez won the sprint race at the Red Bull Ring, while Pecco Bagnaia was forced to retire: this is the summary of Saturday afternoon's Austrian Grand Prix. It's the Spaniard's 12th Sprint victory of the year and, more importantly, the first time he's crossed the finish line first on the Austrian track. His brother Alex—a perfect sprinter—had led the race for ten laps, but then Marc attacked, leaving him unable to respond. Thus, he was able to cross the finish line alone and then celebrate another family one-two. Not to mention that he now extends his championship lead to 123 points over Alex.

"He was very focused at the start, then I realized it was difficult to stay close to Alex, so I decided to wait for the tires to drop before attacking him. This is a special victory for me, and I want to dedicate it to Paul Alsina," the very young rider who lost his life a few weeks ago in Aragon while training.

Rounding out the podium was Pedro Acosta. The Spaniard hadn't had a perfect qualifying, starting from the third row, but he quickly made up positions and took the bronze medal at KTM's home track. Marco Bezzecchi wasn't as satisfied: he started from pole position with his Aprilia, but knew he didn't have the pace of the best. He still took home a respectable 4th place ahead of the other KTM of Brad Binder.

Gresini-Ducati rookie Fermin Aldeguer finished sixth, ahead of Enea Bastianini and Fabio Di Giannantonio. Ninth place and the final available point went to Johann Zarco and Honda.

As mentioned, Bagnaia didn't even see the checkered flag. Things had already gone badly at the start, when his Ducati went sideways. He was running 14th, but something wasn't working; instead of recovering, he was losing positions. On lap 8, he was forced to head for the garage: the first suspicions were about the rear tire, although Ducati preferred not to comment until analyzing the data with Michelin. Raul Fernandez was also forced to retire from sixth place due to a jammed rear lowering system on his Aprilia.